Posted on 10/30/2015 6:56:36 AM PDT by thetallguy24
Updated | In an effort to delay passage of a bipartisan budget deal, Senator Rand Paul began a filibuster around 3 p.m. on Thursday. The effort was expected to continue through 1 a.m. on Friday, but ended after speaking for only 18 minutes and 40 seconds, according to MSNBC.
It turns out the Republican senator from Kentucky spoke against the budget bill only until the time the Senate was to vote on the deal. The Senate would have allowed Paul to continue speaking until midnight, but only if he didn't sit down or use the restroom, a physically exhausting feat if nothing else. At midnight, Paul would have had only one hour left to talk, per Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's interpretation of cloture.
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Real GOP-e presidential material, there.
Mithch’s boy
So McConnell is willing do demand a REAL filibuster against members of his own party.
At least one of our illustrious Senators are making squeaks about our out of control spending by both Parties.
Wasn’t there the ability of Senators to put a secret hold on bills without requiring an actual filibuster?
libturd pansy.
It was a fund raising stunt. Rand knew it would have zero impact on the outcome of vote. Rand is a disappointing excuse of a pol.
Kentucky, I feel your pain ... you’ve got two real winners for Senators.
Burning up time after a cloture vote has passed is just a stunt. It can’t accomplish any change in the outcome or forestall the inevitable vote.
His filibuster lasted about as long as his campaign
LOL!
Every GOPer suffers from a short trigger.
Hey, Rand, whatsamattuhYou,eh?
Didja’s run outta money for those ‘depends’ ya need to speak for so long?
Didja’s make sure to go running for a while, so’s ya’s got’s enough air in d’em lungs, to go blah, blah, blah?
At least he voted against the sellout, unlike McConnell.
Cruz spoke for an hour and a half last night and all Paul can manage is less than 20 minutes?
Idjit.
“didn’t sit down or use the restroom”
A harness and a bucket cures that.
Pitiful. How long did Cruz go?
McWeasal tossed him a bone of 20 mins. because he supported him during his re-election last year over the tea party candidate. Rand held great promise and then turned into the Eddie Haskell version of McWeasal.
I would suggest Eddie concentrate on winning reelection as senator because as president he isn’t even on the radar screen. And I think if the democrats pick the right candidate in KY they could be Eddie easily.
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
Barely enough time to say filluhhhhh.........
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